5.3. How many work disabled persons are working full-time?

Another way to look at employment of people with a work disability is through full-time employment rates. Only 18.4% of the 16.9 million people with a work disability are employed full time. In comparison, 62.0% of the 150 million nonwork disabled people are employed full-time. The difference is true regardless of sex, race, or ethnicity.

People with a work disability are far less likely to work full time, year round than those with no work disability.

Source: McNeil, 1996

Survey: CPS, 1995

Kraus, L., Stoddard, S., & Gilmartin, D. (1996). Chartbook on Disability in the United States, 1996.
An InfoUse Report. Washington, DC: U.S. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.